{"id":34505,"date":"2024-04-25T11:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=34505"},"modified":"2024-05-06T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T19:50:14","slug":"still-time-to-support-local-hospital-ahead-of-sundays-southlake-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/still-time-to-support-local-hospital-ahead-of-sundays-southlake-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Still time to support local hospital ahead of Sunday\u2019s Southlake Run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Registration to participate in this Sunday\u2019s Nature\u2019s Emporium Run for Southlake is now closed, but there are still plenty of ways to support the local hospital\u2019s biggest annual fundraiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2024 Run for Southlake is set to take place the morning of April 28 beginning at the Newmarket Seniors Meeting Place on Davis Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this being the 100th<\/sup> anniversary year for Southlake Regional Health Centre, organizers are hoping each participant can raise at least $100 for local healthcare \u2013 and they can only do so with the help of pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are lots of different ways you can support,\u201d says pediatrician Dr. Charmaine Van Schaik, Southlake\u2019s Chief of Staff. \u201cYou can sponsor a friend or community member, you can go online and support a team, you can come out and participate along the sidelines and cheer people on \u2013 so many ways to support both financially and emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of the run, Dr. Van Schaik says there is \u201cgreat anticipation\u201d for what Sunday will hold, as is the case for the Doctor every year that participants hit the pavement for the organization \u2013 so much so that staff members have broken into teams, some of which she describes as \u201cvery competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a person who lives in the community, for me it is participation from a perspective of a citizen and supporting the local hospital,\u201d she says. \u201cA lot of community fundraising that happens to support hospital equipment literally puts the tools in my hand and that of my colleagues, together with all other healthcare professionals in the hospital, to be able to do the work we do to serve [the community].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe pride ourselves on providing excellent care to our community \u2013 I want that as a clinician, I want that as a citizen, I want that for my parents, and I want that for my patients.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Van Schaik participates in the Run for Southlake each year and likes to do a \u201cbit of a sprint here and a little bit more of a walk there\u201d to give her the chance to interact with participants along the way. It\u2019s important, she says, to learn why they came out and, especially, to thank them for their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are lots of great teams that come out from our community, some of the teams are older in years, some of them are younger in years and it is really [about] connecting with them as well for the priority they\u2019re making for Southlake,\u201d she says. \u201cSome of them come out for the competitive aspect of things \u2013 it\u2019s a good run for some people who are looking for times for qualifying and training \u2013 and they talk about feeling good doing something for their community and hospital. For others, it\u2019s that feel-good and understanding that even as some of them are engaging in this, they don\u2019t really understand that funding doesn\u2019t come from government; it\u2019s sharing those conversations along the way, educating people, because if I tell one person who tells another person, it really gets that understanding out through our community on how we really do need and value their support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding in question isn\u2019t just for the big things, she notes. It can come down to the \u201cbasic equipment that we need right down at the frontlines to make a day-to-day difference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of our strongest attributes [at Southlake] is we have a really strong sense of family and of the care we provide and how we work. One of those really unique things about the Run is you see a lot of that; it\u2019s not just the staff families who are coming out, but you see families in the community who are coming out as a collective, be it through teams that are involved, their own nuclear family, but there is a lot of that collaboration that is evident there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCome out, show your support \u2013 support if you can financially in whatever capacity you can. It will go a long way to really reaching the inside of the hospital and the care we\u2019re able to provide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on this weekend\u2019s Nature\u2019s Emporium Run for Southlake and opportunities to support an individual or team, visit southlake.ca\/foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
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